Avoiding Website Navigation Nightmares
When setting up your navigation structure for your menus think about simplicity. frank deardurff There are many types of navigation that can be used on…
Author: Frank Deardurff
An early love for graphics brought me online
over 20 years ago which lead me to consume
a vast knowledge in marketing, conversion,
design and various types of web technologies. That information
led to becoming a web master, serial entrepreneur, author, coach, trainer
and That One Web Guy! FrankDeardurff.com
Not Accounting For Web Browser Differences
(This is an excerpt from my book “50 Biggest Website Mistakes”) It’s so frustrating. You’ve worked your butt off creating a great looking website and…
Where Is Your Focus?
I’ve talked about focus many times in different articles and posts on my blog, but what I’m talking about here is where is your focus…
How Weight Loss And Marketing Are Similar
Over the last couple of months I’ve been working out at the gym pretty regularly and have been working on losing weight at the same…
How To Prevent Hacking Of Your WordPress Sites
Many people don’t pay attention to the URL when visit a site… What they’re really doing is providing their username and password to the hacker…
Website Tip… Check Your Automated Autoresponder Messages
It’s always good to check our autoresponders to check and make sure you are not sending wrong or outdated messages. frank deardurff In this quick…
Up-sell Marketing Mistakes
This is an excerpt from the book “50 Biggest Website Mistakes” This has to be one of the most overlooked mistakes. And it’s not the…
Use Your Website As A Continual Test Ground
Testing is an often overlooked or completely forgotten about function of a website. You should always be in “test mode” on your website, tweaking and…
Do Your Webpages Load Slowly?
You’ve probably heard the term, “Speed Kills”, Well…the opposite is true when you’re speaking about webpages loading frank deardurff Generally we hear that going too…
How To Take Control Your Email Inbox Bloat
A few years ago I looked over and realized that my unread message count had reached 56,000 emails. Yes, your read that correctly…and that was…
How To Create Secure Passwords That are Easy To Remember
Many times we use passwords that are way too easy to guess and use the same passwords over and over across many sites…this makes a…
How To Use Hyperlinks
Too many times people have added styles to the link to make it appear a different color or added coding to make the underline disappear…Remember…
Domain Name Mistakes
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Tracking Your Business Success
I’ve heard it said many times you can’t change what you do not measure. I take that to mean if you don’t know where you…
Don’t Forget The Follow Up
Recently I decided to do a test on a free checklist for my iMakeBookCovers.com site and it crossed my mind that there is one step…
Study: What Went Wrong In Your Marketing?
One of my favorite quotes is from Benjamin Franklin who said “A mistake is truly a mistake if you learn nothing from it.” And I…
Recharging Your Batteries
“Let’s just face it—we are busier than we have ever been. Stats show that business is up 15% and leisure time is down 30% and,…
A Month For Great Triumphs
August was named in honor of the first Roman Emperor because it was a month of great triumphs. Make the month of August the month…
Is Free Software Worth It?
Educate Yourself on Your Business Purchases And Utilizing Them TO Your Advantage. I was recently working on a woodworking project that I like to do…
Do You Blog Often Enough?
How often should you blog? At a bare minimum you should blog at least twice a month. frank deardurff A question I’ve been asked a…
Your Website’s Tagline
This is a mistake I’ve made and am working on correcting once I determine the words I want to use. I think for starters I…
Website Challenges
An online business owner needs EVERY advantage they can get to be sure they are noticed and get their point across. frank deardurff Recently I’ve…
How To Grab Attention With Your Book Cover – Part Three –
Give Them A Reason Why This is the final part of the 3-part series on 3 Tips for Better Book Cover Design.
How To Grab Attention With Your Book Cover – Part Two –
Is Your Cover Intriguing ? This is part two in a three part series on 3 Tips for Better Book Cover Design. —–> Click Here…
Is Your Online Business For Real?
I think this is one of the biggest reasons why so many online business fail. It is not taking it seriously! People want the dream…
Who’s Doing What?
This affects small businesses as well as large corporations way too often we hear “that’s not my job” or “I thought YOU were doing that”…
A Shortage of Change
Some things are hard to understand. As I have been venturing out, I see signs here and there stating that they have a need for…
How To Grab Attention with Your Book Cover – Part One –
The Best Way To Decide What Will GRAB Your Reader’s Attention Is To Know Who Your Readers Are! frank deardurff Does Your Cover Grab Attention?…
Why You’re Not Building Your Lists
We often ask ourselves, “Why am I not getting more subscribers to my list?” Or, What am I doing wrong with list building?” Before we…
Your Website Is More Than A Business Card
I talk to many small business owners and many of them question why they need a website. They say, “well, isn’t it just a glorified…